LACUNY SCRT Meeting Notes for February 10, 2017

LACUNY Scholarly Communications Round Table
Friday, February 10, 2017
2-4pm
Graduate Center, 196.05

Attendees: Dorothea Coiffe (BMCC), Jean Amaral (BMCC), Madeline Cohen (Lehman), Ellen Sexton (JJ), Liz Jardine (LAGCC), Stefka Tzanova (York), Ching-Jung Chen (City College), Jill Cirasella (GC), Megan Wacha (OLS), Monica Berger (City Tech), Laurent Perat (GC Intern)

Campus Updates

Lehman: Sponsoring 3 faculty fellowships for creation of OER (funding from Provost, $1K stipends), courses include Art History, African-American History, and Geography. Using SUNY-revised CUNY online course.

John Jay: IR is coming along, buy in from graduate faculty, administration interested in OERs

Megan W: Participating in (free) CopyrightX (course at Harvard Law School) this semester.

City College: This semester beginning self submission of master’s theses.

York: Goal this semester to increase submissions to Academic Works. Working with CTL to implement OER activities, creating Libguide.

LaGuardia: Faculty initiative to share assignments, and they’ll deposit in Academic Works.

Grad Center: Second year in a row intern from France, focusing on Academic Works and schol comm projects. Looking at GC grads who paid for OA in Proquest and asking if they’d like give permission to add to AW. 232 faculty who are Grad Center alums, reaching out to this group as well. Scopus project running script for GC faculty; possibly 16% or 17% will allow publishers’ PDF. Web of Science alerts for monitoring current publications. Intern exploring library as publisher options.

BMCC: New position of Faculty Research and Scholarly Communications Librarian, working out activities. Partnering with Research Director on faculty workshops. OER program growing.

City Tech: Visiting departments, giving customized talks, focus on evaluating scholarship (what makes for good scholarship?), discussions about equity and fairness.

Fall Recap

Co-sponsored event with CUNY Copyright Committee for the copyright law anniversary, with Amanda Lewendowski, which was very well-attended and received.

For Open Access Month, City Tech had a number of events, along with a few other campuses. Megan and Jill presented at SUNY webinars. GC held Boosting Scholarly Profile workshop (see blog post), inspired by Monica Berger’s summer program at City Tech.

OLS Update (Megan Wacha)

Academic Works update:

• close to 14,000 items and 500,000 downloads
• tip: Refer to AW as Academic Works, CUNY Academic Works, or the CUNY repository (rather than focusing on campus)
• there are now more options for administrators levels
• New OA journal, Art History Pedagogy and Practice
• CUNY Law Review now in AW
• Megan thinking about OA and AW submissions as collection development
• monthly webinar series
• workshops at campuses and for special programs (e.g., faculty fellowship publication program)

CUNY SCC providing feedback to CCL’s regarding draft strategic plan for CUNY Libraries.

SCC working with libraries to pass Open Access Policy. Writing report for General Counsel on experience at other universities with union contracts. No barriers came to the surface in looking at other universities’ experiences.

Possible Scholarly Journals Publishers Event

Chris Eliot, OA journal editor from Hofstra, proposed bringing editors and librarians to talk. Other suggestions: Megan will provide name of someone she thinks would be fabulous (went from open to Springer). Maybe someone who went closed to open. Radical Teacher? New Library Juice Critical Library and Information Science? Feminist Criminology (with Sage?)?

Harvard recently released report, Converting Scholarly Journals to Open Access: A Review of Approaches and Experiences; unfortunately none of the authors are local.

Date possibly mid to late March or early April, being sure to avoid ACRL.

Global OA Webinar

Can CUNY host? Maybe. Megan will explore. Jean will look into BMCC as back up.

Williams Ngwagwu? Laura Czerniewicz?

Working group: Monica, Megan, Ellen, Jean

Open @ CUNY Blog

Volunteers to rejuvenate and relaunch combined blog: Liz, Megan, Madeline, Jean

Beall’s List & Evaluating Journals

Farewell!

Other options:

• Think. Check. Submit.
• Megan’s evaluation tool (revising and will send around)
• John Jay and City Tech libguides
• DOAJ and OASPA